Track and Field4/11/19Apr 11 20194Track and Field4/11/19Track and FieldReal Cross Country Delivers Real RedemptionSarah Barker26Jakob Larsen, director of Danish Athletics, revealed at the pre-race press conference that the guiding concept…
Fitness11/9/18Nov 9 20187Fitness11/9/18FitnessUltrarunner Courtney Dauwalter Takes On The World's Most Sadistic Endurance RaceSarah Barker73Gary Cantrell clanged a bell at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, signaling 70 runners to jog off into the woods on…
Fitness10/17/18Oct 17 20181Fitness10/17/18FitnessYuki Kawauchi, The World's Most Famous Amateur Runner, Explains Why He's Finally Going ProSarah Barker10As soon as they’d had a chance to mop the sweat or rinse the vomit out of their mouth, the top finishers of the…
Fitness9/7/18Sep 7 20187Fitness9/7/18Fitness"You Can Come Back From The Dead": How An Average Guy Runs 200 MilesSarah Barker80Travis McCathie is an average 37-year-old, and yet, on August 13, he finished the Bigfoot 200 Endurance Run. On…
Jul 3 201827/3/18Gwen Jorgensen Wants To Be The Best In The World. Again.Sarah Barker13Endurance athletes, triathletes and distance runners, are a humble lot—hardworking, long suffering, and taught to…
Jun 13 2018116/13/18Ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter Explains Why She Runs Through Blindness And HallucinationsSarah Barker59Courtney Dauwalter is a real nice girl, but competitive. She’s 33 now and married, and living in Golden, Colo., but…
May 22 2018305/22/18How An Inner-City Minnesota High School Built a Girls’ Badminton DynastySarah Barker55Bao Nhia Thao is maybe 5-foot-2, with an enigmatic smile—smooth and benign.
Apr 19 201824/19/18Boston's Weather Broke Scores Of Elite Runners, But Not Old Man Abdi AbdirahmanSarah Barker3Despite miserable weather, 95 percent of of the 27,042 common folk who started Monday’s Boston Marathon eventually…
Feb 7 2018182/7/18A Decade In Kenya Turned Two Teens From New Zealand Into World-Class RunnersSarah Barker45The plan had seemed so simple when it was hatched in their mom’s basement. But as the plane was landing in Nairobi,…
Jan 9 201851/9/18What The World's Most Famous Amateur Can Teach Pro RunnersSarah Barker56At just 30 years old, Yuki Kawauchi is in a distance running category of his own. As of January 1, he has run the…
Nov 10 20174111/10/17Diane Nukuri's Long Run To FreedomSarah Barker22“My brother used to cover for me, and tell my mom I was visiting my grandma when I was out running,” says Diane…
Sep 7 2017109/7/17How A Small-Time Training Group And An Army Program Changed American Distance RunningSarah Barker13Warmed up and stripped down, 15 blade-thin runners milled on the track, game-faced, gathering themselves. A few…
Jul 11 201747/11/17How Up-And-Coming Runner Hannah Fields Found Her GrooveSarah Barker13Carolyn Helker’s daughter, Hannah, is quite competitive. She gets that from her father, Eddy. When Hannah was young,…
Jun 30 201746/30/17The Curious Case Of Ajee Wilson's Positive Drug TestSarah Barker31Indoor American 800-meter record holder Ajee Wilson was stripped of that record for testing positive for zeranol, a…
Track and Field6/7/17Jun 7 20174Track and Field6/7/17Track and FieldLack Of Testosterone Limits Leads To Debate Over Transgender High School AthleteSarah Barker196Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the…
May 19 2017215/19/17The Full-Court Pressure Of The Somali-American SportswomanSarah Barker24Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep…
May 18 2017115/18/17Edna Kiplagat Is Incredible Sarah Barker9It was about 4 p.m. in Iten, Kenya when Edna Kiplagat got hold of me on Skype. The connection was poor, so she tried…
May 9 201755/9/17The Case For Being A Selfish Bastard RunnerSarah Barker44“One selfless London Marathon runner sacrificed his own race to help a physically exhausted fellow runner across…
May 8 2017155/8/17Nike's Two-Hour-Long Eliud Kipchoge Documentary Was BeautifulSarah Barker65Nike’s Breaking2 campaign was unsuccessful.
Apr 10 2017274/10/17The Brutality Of The Barkley MarathonsSarah Barker88Canadian endurance runner Gary Robbins had been running—which is to say, sliding, clawing, and bushwhacking, with a…